Perry Heights, OH
Perry Heights wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Perry Heights at the 23rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 3,915 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Perry Heights at the 25th percentile, close to its 23rd-percentile risk score.
Perry Heights's building exposure, zone by zone
87.7% of Perry Heights's 3,915 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 12.3% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Perry Heights against the rest of the country
Compare Perry Heights's two percentiles: 55th within Ohio, only 23rd nationally — a gap of 32 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Perry Heights ranks 24,278 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,323 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 567 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Perry Heights
At the 23rd national percentile, Perry Heights rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Perry Heights's 87.7% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Perry Heights's 23rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Perry Heights, see the exposure-zones guide.